install root-cern

[cancellic]

l would like to install " root_cern software " from http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/d...-version-52504 but when l use ./configure it says to me

configure: X11/extensions/shape.h header (xorg-x11-proto-devel) MUST be installed

but l checked l have installed this file by add/remove command, what is the problem?

there is

Intel x86 Linux for Redhat RHEL 5 (SLC5) and gcc 4.3, version 5.25/04

can l use it with fedora 12 , if yes how can l install it?

thank you so much

[PabloTwo]

Would any of the following packages provide what you need:

BASH:~/-> sudo yum list *cern*
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Available Packages
cernlib.i686                                                        2006-34.fc12                                       fedora
cernlib-devel.i686                                                  2006-34.fc12                                       fedora
cernlib-g77.i686                                                    2006-33.fc12                                       fedora
cernlib-g77-devel.i686                                              2006-33.fc12                                       fedora
cernlib-g77-static.i686                                             2006-33.fc12                                       fedora
cernlib-g77-utils.i686                                              2006-33.fc12                                       fedora
cernlib-packlib.i686                                                2006-33.fc12                                       fedora
cernlib-packlib-g77.i686                                            2006-33.fc12                                       fedora
cernlib-packlib-gfortran.i686                                       2006-34.fc12                                       fedora
cernlib-static.i686                                                 2006-34.fc12                                       fedora
cernlib-utils.i686                                                  2006-34.fc12                                       fedora
BASH:~/-> sudo yum info cernlib
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Available Packages
Name       : cernlib
Arch       : i686
Version    : 2006
Release    : 34.fc12
Size       : 16 M
Repo       : fedora
Summary    : General purpose CERN library
URL        : http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/
License    : GPL+ and LGPLv2+
Description: CERN program library is a large collection of general purpose libraries
           : and modules maintained and offered on the CERN. Most of these programs
           : were developed at CERN and are therefore oriented towards the needs of a
           : physics research laboratory that is general mathematics, data analysis,
           : detectors simulation, data-handling etc... applicable to a wide range
           : of problems.
           : 
           : The main and devel packages are parallel installable, but not the helper
           : scripts from the utils subpackage.

[cancellic]

it works now.anyway l want to ask you something, when l want to install something by ./configure-make-install
there is something that l can use and that it helps me to solve all dependencies?

[PabloTwo]

If there is a tool to help resolve build dependencies when compiling from source code, I don't know what it is. It is the ./configure run that usually lets you know when something needed for a compile is missing. You get your clue what the missing item is by examining the last several lines printed to the console when the ./configure run halted on an error.

Sometimes it takes a bit of detective work to figure out what Fedora package is needed to resolve that issue. In most cases, it will be a *-devel package, but sometimes it's a program. An example of a missing helper program.... a day or two ago I was trying to compile an older source code package. ./configure halted on an error: (paraphrased) checking for working makeinfo...... no

Doing yum whatprovides */makeinfo showed me that I needed the package texinfo installed. Anytime you get an error in ./configure about a missing *.h file, you can be sure you need a *-devel package associated with the error.